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When he blazed to Broadway stardom and a Tony Award in 1969 playing an embittered drug addict in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Al Pacino showed a menacing fire. Three years later, in the most memorable of his six Oscar- nominated film roles, he revealed an even scarier core of ice as a Mafia don in the making in The Godfather. His intelligence, energy, aura of command and eerie humor should have made him America's leading classical actor. Instead, his career has been one of ample accomplishment but unfulfilled promise...
...years make. In the trio's new album, Shadows and ! Light, the signature sweet harmonies are back but the subject matter is far more personal -- and gut wrenching. All three women have been estranged from their fathers -- whose well-publicized problems have included drugs and other hazards of rock stardom -- and their anguish over those fractured relationships is dealt with in startlingly candid cuts...
Keith Carradine continues in the title role of the musical The Will Rogers Follies, and Cyd Charisse has re-emerged via Grand Hotel. In coming weeks they are being joined in musical stardom by Raul Julia and pop singer Sheena Easton in Man of La Mancha, Peter Gallagher (of the movie sex, lies, and videotape) in Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood...
...course, life is never quite that simple and Dottie Ingels, played by Julie Kavner, experiences all the pitfalls of show business cum motherhood. First, her dream of stardom--which is shared by her two daughters, Erica and Opal--seems to bear little relation to reality...
Dottie's rise to stardom and her mounting family problems come to a head when she is booked at a renowned comedy club in Los Angeles. Erica and Opal must stay behind in the care of Dottie's aspiring comedian friends. Meanwhile, Dottie begins to appear on national TV in interviews. As her stay in LA lengthens, her daughters see more of Dottie on TV than they do in real life...